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Feel very depressed about the whole #EHRCReport debacle. So, so wearying. For one thing, I felt forced to leave my own tribe - after 26 years, I not only left @UKLabour, but I also found that I simply could not vote #Labour. /THREAD https://twitter.com/gsoh31/status/1192360648602247168">https://twitter.com/gsoh31/st...
And where has it got us? It *should* have given us all a sense of how fragile the protection of minorities can be. I lost count, among some actual friends and fellow academics, of: excuses; self-deception; covering; justification; whataboutery. You know the sort of thing.
It should all have been about the Jewish community - its right to live unfollowed, unthreatened by the oldest hatred. Instead, it& #39;s all been about one stupid, unimaginative man and one squalid civil war. Pathetic. Grow up.
The second party in the state has now got itself into a complete tangle, at the intersection of the law, personalities, factionalism and the interface between statecraft and the official Opposition.
It& #39;s hard to see this going away. Let C**byn back in, complaint after complaint will be lodged against him - including under the new machinery. This goes for all the MPs who& #39;ve put out tweets covering for him today. It is never-ending.
There is good in this: every minority can see that there are people in this country who if necessary will fight and fight and fight again by their side. And there is a legal structure that will crank into gear - eventually.
But by God, it& #39;s all so, so tiring. I& #39;ve looked again and again and again - why didn& #39;t I see it full-on? Although harshly critical from the start, it wasn& #39;t enough. It was inadequate to the moment: http://publicpolicypast.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-wrongness-of-corbynism.html">https://publicpolicypast.blogspot.com/2015/09/t...
Just so tired. I know many of my Jewish fellow-citizens and comrades feel much, much worse. Labour failed them, and I& #39;m not honestly sure that I can *ever* rejoin that tribe - not because of the Core Group Hostile, but because of the complicity of the rest.
It& #39;s been a sad story - ridiculously low-quality layabout wasters trapped in a web of bathos. Tragic, instructive, but so unnecessary. /END
